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Life & Chemistry

Gene Mismatch Increases Complications in Bone Marrow Transplants

A commonly inherited gene deletion can increase the likelihood of immune complications following bone marrow transplantation, an international team of…

Physics & Astronomy

Water Droplets Guide Self-Assembly in Thin-Film Materials

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films…

Health & Medicine

Moderate Exercise Linked to Lower Stroke Risk in Men

However, exercise did not have a protective effect against stroke for women. Women who took part in moderate-to-heavy intensity exercise did not have a reduced…

Studies and Analyses

New Computational Microscope Unlocks Ribosome Secrets

The first study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concerns the intimate signaling between the ribosome and an elongation factor (EF-Tu) that…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption

Battery-powered cell phones serve as hand-held computers and more these days. We run power-hungry applications while we depend on the phones to be available in…

Life & Chemistry

Saving the Single Cysteine: New Antioxidant System Found

Now, researchers at the University of Michigan, along with colleagues in Belgium, have discovered a new antioxidant system that protects single cysteines. The…

Earth Sciences

Is Global Warming Unstoppable?

“It looks unlikely that there will be any substantial near-term departure from recently observed acceleration in carbon dioxide emission rates,” says the new…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Find 11 Times More Aftershocks for 2004 Quake

“We found almost 11 times more events in the first three days after the main event. That’s surprising because this is a well-instrumented place and almost 90…

Life & Chemistry

New Cancer Target for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Promising results have led to the design of a clinical trial that will soon be under way to test a compound — called PU-H71 — in human patients. This…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring and Modeling Blood Flow in Malaria

Experiments show that infected red blood cells are stiffer and stickier than normal ones — in the later stages of the disease, up to 10 times stiffer. They…

Physics & Astronomy

Robotic Clam Digs in Mudflats

“The best anchoring technology out there is an order or magnitude worse than the clam – most are two or three orders worse,” says Hosoi, whose group is…

Physics & Astronomy

Butterfly Proboscis Inspires New Cell-Sipping Innovation

Kornev will present his work next week at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take place from…

Physics & Astronomy

Generating Electricity from Air Flow Around Moving Cars and Trucks

They will present their concept later this month at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take place…

Physics & Astronomy

Aquatic Creatures Mix Ocean Water

More than 60 years ago, oceanographers predicted that the effect of swimming animals could be profound. Accounting for this effort has proven difficult,…

Physics & Astronomy

Nuclear Weapons: Predicting the Unthinkable

“The predictive capabilities of today's state-of-the-art models in urban areas need to be improved, validated and tested,” says Grinstein. “Work in this area…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Shows Versatility of Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells

Reporting in Oncogene, a publication of Nature Publishing Group, the research teams of Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for…

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